Oidemia deglandi. Lake Umbagog. 1890, October 13. Came back to camp for lunch after which M. started down the lake to the Tyler Cove in pursuit of a large flock of Scoters which Jim discovered there. They proved to be Velvet Scoters, a- bout thirty in number. all females and young. We killed seven of them and a female Surf Scoter which was with them. I spent an hour or more skinning birds and then started out. We had rowed only a few hundred yards when a flock of 19 Velvet Scoters (not the flock M.had been shooting at) came flying up the lake low over the water in a line at right angles to their course of flight. As they passed me within 30 yds. I made a double shot, getting both birds. We followed them but did not get a- nother good chance. 75